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Notre Dame, Ind., Mar. 31 — Current, concrete and practical ethical

problems are explored in Ethics; A. College Text (Harper and Row), a new book

by Rev. Leo R. Ward, C.S.C., professor emeritus of philosophy at the University

of Notre Dame.

devotes chapters to such timely subjects as ethics and discrimination, ethical

questions for schools, ethics and technology and the positive values of sex.

Throughout the volume Father Ward makes use of the recent anthopological

studies of Redfield, Linton, Kluckhohn and Sidney. He provides questions and

topics for discussions and papers at the end of each chapter.

Though he has relinquished his work in the classroom, he continues his writing

and research, notably on the philosophical bases of panhumanism* He holds de­

grees from Notre Dame and the Catholic University of America where he received

his doctorate. He also studied at Oxford University and at the University of

Louvain in Belgium.The veteran Holy Cross priest is the author of a number of books on .

moral philosophy, philosophy of education and social philosophy. Among them are

Blueprint for a. Catholic University. Ethics and the Social Sciences, God and

World Order and Philosophy of Education. He has also written All Over God1s

Irish Heaven. God in an Irish Kitchen and Nova Scotia: Land of Cooperatives.

A former president of the American Catholic philosophical Association,

Father Ward is joint editor of the Social and Political Philosophy of Jacques

Maritain.

While not neglecting the classical, theoretical problems, Father Ward

Father Ward was a member of the Notre Dame faculty from

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Notre Dame, Ind., Apr* 5 — Undergraduate tuition at the University

of Notre Dame will be $1,500 per academic year effective next September, an

increase of $50 a semester, it was announced today.

Also beginning next fall, tuition in the Notre Dame Law School and

the University’s Graduate School will be increased $200 to $1,200 for the

academic year* Graduate and law school tuition had remained at $1,000 since

the 1959-60 school year.

Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Notre Dame president, said the

tuition increases are necessary because of "continually rising educational

costs*" He said that Notre Dame’s board and room fee of $800, which varies

only slightly depending on the individual student’s room, would not be raised.

The University will try to make special provision for any students

for whom the tuition increase would work an undue hardship, Father Hesburgh

said* He indicated special consideration will be given such students if they

apply for assistance from established governmental or university student loan

funds.

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Notre Dame, Ind,, Apr. 7 — If there is to he an aggiornamento orbringing-up -to-date in the Roman Catholic Church, "it must have its starting

place in the seminaries» Mo permanent or effectual reform and renewal within

the Church can transpire unless there is first a reform and renewal within the

This is the conviction of Rev* Louis J* Puts, C.8.C., and Dr. James Michael Lee, both members of the University of Notre Dame faculty and editors

of the new book, Seminary Education in a Time of Change * Twelve noted specialists,

in addition to the editors, have contributed essays to the book "which could not

by Pides Publishers, Inc."Simply because a seminary is under the auspices of the Church does not

per se mean that it automatically provides the best educational program forclerical candidates, any more than the fact that the sacristy is located

within a church building automatically ensures that this room will never have mice," the editors contend* "If a seminary is always to be in the now, on the growing edge of renewal, it must be continually and continuously subjected to examination and scrutiny from a variety of competent sourcesThe editors point . \

out that "there lias; been less than negligible research done in this vital educational area*"

Joseph Cardinal Ritter, Archbishop of St, Louis, in a Poreward to the book, writes, " there must be an aggiornamento in seminary education * Certainly one of the most imperative tasks confronting the Church today," His Eminence declares, "is a reconsideration of the methods by which its priests are educated for the ministry*" more

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"Does contemporary seminary education provide the optimum professional

pastoral preparation for future priests?" Cardinal Bitter asks. "The uniqueness of this present volume is that for the first time in the history of the

American Catholic Church one compact book attempts to consider in a scholarly

fashion all the basic components of seminary education.. The St. Louis

prelate expressed the hope that Seminary Education in a Time of Change "willInaugurate even greater interest in that continuing upgrading of clerical educa­

tion which has been the unwavering goal of every diocesan, religious and seminary official."

Bev. Frank B. Norris, S. S., of California's St* Patrick's Seminary, says Catholic seminaries as we know them today are the creation of the sixteenth

century Council of Trent. "Just as the Tridentine seminary embodies the

Counter Reformation* s understanding of the Church, so must the seminary of theage of Vatican II be expressive of the broader and enhanced vision which the Church has given of her own nature. It is not, therefore, a question of

adjusting the seminary to the demands of a supposed 'new breed1, or to watering

down the virtue of obedience in order to make it more acceptable to modern youth. Rather it is a question of seeking honestly the answer to some very important questions in the light of contemporary ecclesiology."

Writing on "The Intellectual Climate," Rev. Sergius Wroblewski, O.F.M.,

of Christ the King Seminary in Illinois, complains that most American seminaries

follow "the more or less hoary method in which blind obedience to rules and

passivity in class are supposed to produce responsible and orthodox priests."

He concedes that creative persons are "necessarily troublesome to teachers, all

teachers, not just those in seminaries." But, lie insists, "if reform anddevelopment are to occur within the church, it is the creative cleric who will

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Other contributors to the provocative book include Eight Bev. Msgr.John Tracy Ellis, professor of Church history at the University of San Francisco; Bev. William C. Bier, S. J., chairman of the psychology department at Fordham University; Rev. Robert M. Brooks, 0. Pream., associate professor of sociology at St. Norbert College, West DePere, Wise.; Rev. George C. Hagmaier, C. S. P., of the department of religious education, Catholic University of America; and Rev. Eugene C. Kennedy, M. M., a faculty member at the Maryknoll Seminary,Glen Ellyn, 111., and at Loyola University in Chicago.

Also Rev. Adrian L. van Kaarn, C. S. Sp., professor of psychology at Duquesne University; Rev. John L. McKenzie, S. J., professor of biblical history at Loyola University in Chicago; Very Rev. Maur Burbach, 0. S. B.,Prior of St. Puis X Monastery in Missouri; Rev. Robert 0, Johann, S. J",, professor of philosophy at Loyola Seminary in Hew York; Rev. Dennis J.Geaney, 0. S. A., social action specialist, Fort Wayne, Ind.; and Dr. Franklin H. Littell, professor of Church history at Chicago Theological Seminary.

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Notre Dame, Ind., Apr, 3 — Marc Chagall, the celebrated artist, will

receive an honorary degree during a four-day visit to the University of Notre

Dame and its department of art beginning Sunday (Apr. 4), it was announced

today by Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., University president,

Father Hesburgh will confer an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree

on the 77-year-old, Russian-born painter at a special convocation in the

auditorium of the new Notre Dame Memorial Library Monday (Apr, 5) at 4 p.m.

Chagall is expected to give a brief address of acceptance.

His famous painting, "The Grand Circus," will form a unique and

colorful backdrop on the convocation stage. Depicting one of the artist’s

favorite themes, the 5-by-10 foot painting has been loaned to the Notre Dame

gallery by the Gustav Stern Foundation, Inc., New York City,

Admission to the convocation and to a private reception immediately

following at The Morris Inn on the campus will be by invitation only, Chagall,

who will be accompanied by his wife on the Notre Dame visit, will meet

informally with Rev, Anthony Lauck, C.S.C., head of the art department, its

faculty members and students on Tuesday. He is expected to leave the campus

Wednesday morning»

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Among Chagall’s more recent commissions are the brilliantly colored

ceiling of the Paris Opera, the intricate stained-glass window in the United

Nations Secretariat Building in New York City, and the John D* Rockefeller, Jr*,

memorial window in the family church at Pocantico Hills, N* Y* He has also

done the stained glass at the Cathedral of Metz and the Hadassah Hospital

Chapel in Israel, The UN work is a memorial to Dag Hammarskjold and fifteen

companions who perished in the 1961 plane crash, Chagall’s life and work were

recently featured in major articles in LIFE (Dec, 4, 1964) and PARIS MATCH

(Sept, 26, 1964),

Chagall was born in Vitebsk, Russia, July 7, 1887, but he has lived

much of the time since 1910 in Paris where, the artist says, he was "bom

again,” His first one-man show was hung in Berlin at the outset of World

War I, which was to prevent his return to Paris until 1922* He received

the Carnegie Prize in 1939, but again war intervened, and Chagall came in

1941 to the United States where he spent the war years, returning to his beloved

Paris in 1947.

Chagall exhibitions were held at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and

at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1945, His work also has been seen in recent

years at the National Library of France, at the Mars an Pavillion in Paris and

at the Louvre*

He received the International Prize of Venice in 1948 and holds

Copenhagen’s Erasmus Prize, He is a member of the Legion of Honor, the

American Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm*

It has been said that Chagall’s paintings, which often defy the laws

of gravity and logic, are confusing and upsetting to some people, But, in the

words of Emily Genauer, the critic and art editor, "Chagall, perhaps more than

any other painter of our time.,— giving wing to lovers, bouquets, musicians,

clocks, cows and candlesticks — has also given wing to our own imagination."

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Notre Dame, Ind., Apr. 15 — The University of Notre Damea symposium on Pope John’s encyclical, PACBM IN TERRIS, May 8th (Saturday), it

was announced today by Rev. Mark J. Fitzgerald, C.S.C., chairman of the event., Highlighting the symposium, Father Fitzgerald said, will be panels on

"Building a Christian Civilization" and "Meeting Responsibilities in the Modern

World" and an address by Dr. George N. Shuster on "Peace in the World."

9:30 a.m., will involve specialists in the social sciences as well as repre­

sentatives of unions, management and the public. The sessions will be sponsored

by the department of economics in cooperation with the faculties of Notre Dame’s

several colleges and the Catholic Economic Association,

C.S.C., assistant professor of theology, "Order in Human Beings;" Rev, Leo R.

Ward, C.S.C., professor of philosophy, "Essentials of the Common Good"; Rev.

Albert Schlitzer, C.S.C., head of the theology department, "International

Common Good"; Dr. John J. Kennedy, head of the department of government and

international studies, "Awareness of False Civil Societies"; William E. Brown,

assistant general attorney, Allis-Chalmers Co., Milwaukee, Wise., "The Dignity

of Man"; and Father Fitzgerald, "Government and the Economy."

The Notre Dame symposium, to be held at the Morris Inn beginning at

Participating in a morning panel will be Rev. Leon Mertensotto

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An afternoon panel will include presentations by Rev. Louis Putz,

C.S.C., associate professor of theology, "Specific Natural Rights"; Prof.

Thomas F, Broden of the Notre Dame Law School, "Regard for Racial Minorites";

Rev* Thomas J. McDonagh, C.S.C., head of the economics department, "Inter­

mediate Organizations"; Dr. William F. Eagan, associate professor of business

organization and management, "Need for Regional Development"; Harry W. Flannery,

radio coordinator, AFL-C10, Washington, B.C., "Cooperation Among Nations"; and

Louis F. Buckley, regional administrator of the U.S. Bureau of Employment

Security, New York City, "Personal Participation."

Dr. Shuster, who will give the symposium’s closing address, is

assistant to the president of Notre Dame and former president of Hunter College

in New York City. He is the author of UNESCO: Assessment and Promise and

served for several years as the American representative on UNESCO’s executive

board.

Rev* Chester A* Soleta, C.S.C., Notre Dame vice president for

academic affairs, will extend the University’s welcome at the opening session.

Father McDonagh will preside at the morning session, and Father Fitzgerald will

be chairman for the afternoon program.

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Notre Dame, Ind., Apr. 17 — A special convocation will be held May 15th to mark the Centennial of Science at the University of Notre Dame, it was announced today by Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., University

Father Hesburgh said Prof. Michael Polanyi, the celebrated physical chemist and philosopher from Manchester and Oxford Universities in England, who was a physician early in his career, will be the principal speaker at the ceremonies in The Stepan Center at 3 p.m. The convocation will also include the conferring of honorary degrees on a number of eminent figures in the world of science, he said.

The Centennial of Science convocation is one of a series of events being held in conjunction with the spring meetings of Notre Dame's Board of Day Trustees and its Advisory Council for Science and Engineering May 14-15. Centennial lectures, exhibits and several special events have been scheduled throughout 1965 to observe the 100th anniversary of scientific instruction and research at the University.

Born in Budapest, Prof. Polanyi was educated there and in Berlin where he was a member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry for ten years until 1933. From 1933 to 1958 he was associated with the University of Manchester, England, first as a professor of physical chemistry and later as a professor of social studies. From 1959 to 1961 he was a senior research fellow at Merton College, Oxford, where he now lives.

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Prof. Polanyi is the author of a number of books including Science, Faith and Society; The Logic of Liberty; The Study of Man; and

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Beyond Nihilism. His articles on plasticity, adsorption, crystal structure, chemical reaction kinetics, bond energies and polymerization have frequently appeared in German and British journals.

The noted scientist-philosopher has lectured widely in the United States in recent years. He served as Distinguished Professor of Religion at Duke University in 1964 and as a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study of Behavioral Science at Stanford University during 1962-63. He was Terry Lecturer at Yale University in 1962, and in 1961 was McEnnerny Lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Virginia.

Prof. Polanyi is a member of the International Academy of Philosophy and Science and a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds honorary doctorates from a number of institutions including Princeton, Leeds and Aberdeen.

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Notre Dame, Ind., Apr. 2k Twelve eminent figures in the world

of science, seven of them Nobel Prize winners, will receive honorary doctorates

at a special convocation May 15th (Saturday) marking the Centennial of Science

at the University of Notre Dame*

Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., University president, who today

named the honorary degree recipients, will officiate at the 3 p*m* ceremonies in The Stepan Center. Among those to be honored by Notre Dame is Prof. Michael

Folanyi, the celebrated physical chemist, philosopher and author from

Oxford, England, who earlier was named the principal convocation speaker.

Honorary Doctor of Daws degrees also will be conferred by Father

Hesburgh on Dean A. Adrian Albert of the Division of the Physical Sciences

at the University of Chicago; Prof. Melvin Calvin, director of the Lawrence

Radiation Laboratory’s Chemical Biodynamics Laboratory, University of California

at Berkeley; Mr. Crawford H. Greenewalt, chairman of the board of E. I. du Pont

de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, Del.; Prof. Karl Herzfeld, head of the

department of physics, Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C.; and

Dr. Donald F. Hornig, Special Assistant to President Johnson for Science and

Technology and chairman of the President’s Science Advisory Committee,

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Others who will accept honorary doctorates at the Notre Dame Centennial of Science convocation include Dr. Arthur Kornberg, professor and

executive head of the department of biochemistry at the Stanford University

School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif.; Prof. Edward L. Tatum of The Rockefeller

Institute, New York, N. Y.; Dr. Charles H. Townes, provost at the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Dr* Harold C. Urey, professor of chemistry-

at-large, University of California; Dr. James D. Watson, professor of biology at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; and Dr. Eugene P. Wigner, Princeton University physicist currently engaged in research at the Oak Ridge (Tenn.)

National Laboratory.

Each of the honorary degree recipients except Polanyi, who lives in

England, is a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. The

Nobel Laureates in the group are Professors Calvin (1961), Kornberg (1959),Tatum (1958), Townes (196%), Urey (193*0, Watson (1962) and Wigner (1963).

A highlight of the Centennial of Science convocation will be the

formal presentation of Notre Dame1 s Laetare Medal for 1965 to Dr. Frederick D. Rossini, dean of the University*s College of Science. Rossini was named

March 28th to receive the award which has been made annually since 1883 to a Catholic layman who has coupled a distinguished professional career with an exemplary private life. He is the second scientist and the first Notre Dame faculty member to receive the Laetare Medal.

The Most Rev. Leo A. Purs ley, Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, will give the benediction at the special Notre Dame convocation. Also participating

in the program will be Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C*S.C., executive vice president, who will assist in the conferring of degrees, and Rev. Chester A. Soleta, C.S.C*

vice president for academic affairs, who will read the honorary degree citations

Music for the academic procession will be provided by the University of Notre Dame Band,

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The Centennial of Science convocation is one of a series of events

"being held at Notre Dame May 14-15 in conjunction with the spring meetings

of the University’s Board of Lay Trustees and the Advisory Council for

Science and Engineering.

Three lectures on Notre Dame science — past, present and future —

will he a feature of the centennial weekend. Dr. Lawrence Baldinger, associate

dean of the College of Science, will speak on the ’’History of Science at Notre

Dame” in the Memorial Library Friday (May l4th) at 8 p.m. The University’s

current educational program and research in science will be described by

Dr. Bernard Waldman, associate dean of the science school, in the library

auditorium Saturday (May 15th) at 10 a.m. Dean Rossini will follow Waldman1 s

presentation with a talk on ”The Future of Science at Notre Dame.”

Other science centennial events include a Dean’s Reception in the

President’s Lounge, Notre Dame Memorial Library, Friday (May l4th) at 10 p.m.;

an open house in the several buildings of the College of Science Saturday

(May 15th) from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.; a President’s Luncheon for honorary

degree recipients and other invited guests Saturday at noon in The Morris

Inn; and a Centennial of Science Dinner in the North Dining Hall at 7 p.m. The

convocation and open house, of course, are open to the public. Admission to

the other events is by ticket only.

Prof. Milton Burton, director of Notre Dame’s Radiation Laboratory,

is chairman of the Centennial of Science Committee# The group has organized

a year-long series of lectures, exhibits and special events to mark the first

hundred years of scientific instruction and research at the University. Notre

Dame awarded its first Bachelor of Science degree on June 22, 1865, to John Cassidy of Chelsea, Michigan, who later became & South Bend physician. Today

the College of Science has an enrollment of 600 sophomores, juniors and seniors,

and 328 students are pursuing advanced science degrees in the Graduate School.

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NWS RELEASES FOR APRIL, 1965

Rev. Leo R. Ward, C.S.C.Authors ethics text

Tuition increases announcedfor undergraduates and Law students

Dr. Lee and Rev. Putz, C.S.C. edit work on Seminary Education

Artist Marc Chagall to recieve honorary doctorate at special convocation

Challenge II Sports Gar Spectacular in Stepan Center

Symposium on Pope John's Pacem In Terris

Prof. Polanyi to be principle speaker in Centennial of Science Convocation

12 to recieve Honorary Doctorates at Centennial of Science Convocation